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AMERICAN HISTORY

200

'Between 1856 & 1860, 2,962 of this faith set out from Iowa & Nebraska to Utah in the Handcart Migration'

Mormonism

400

'On April 2, 1917 President Wilson told Congress, "The world must be made safe for" this'

democracy

600

'On April 20, 1971 the U.S. Supreme Court upheld this transportation method as a way to achieve school integration'

busing

800

'John O'Sullivan, who later became a diplomat, coined this term for the USA's right to cover the continent'

Manifest Destiny

1000

'In 1798 Congress passed this collection of bills to control domestic dissent & conspiracy against the federal govt.'

the Alien & Sedition Acts

CABLE CHANNELS

200

'The Dire Straits song "Money For Nothing" says, "You play the guitar on" this cable channel'

MTV

400

'This channel for women produces the original drama "Army Wives"'

Lifetime

600

'This channel shows films like "The Magnificent Seven" & original series like "Mad Men" & "Breaking Bad"'

AMC

800

'You'll "find" that this channel features "Cash Cab" & "Dirty Jobs"'

Discovery

1000

'Channel that's been home to gritty shows like "Dirt" & "Rescue Me"'

FX

PROPHET SHARING

200

'Before he was a prophet, Smohalla gained fame as one of these alliterative Native American healers'

a medicine man

400

'In I Kings this fiery Biblical prophet won a contest with the prophets of Baal'

Elijah

600

'The soothsayer Calchas told this king he had to offer up his daughter Iphigenia to Artemis to get winds to rise'

Agamemnon

800

'Poems known as the "Gathas" are attributed to this ancient prophet & teacher who lived in eastern Iran'

Zoroaster

1000

'On the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Michelangelo included some of these ancient oracle-like prophetesses'

sibyls

WOMEN OF THE WORLD

200

'This Nobel Peace Prize winner was born in what is now Skopje, Macedonia in 1910'

Mother Teresa

400

'This British dame, Rudolf Nureyev's dance partner, was married to a Panamanian diplomat'

Margot Fonteyn

600

'She wrote her first novel, "The House of the Spirits", in exile soon after her uncle's assassination'

Isabel Allende

800

'This Norwegian beauty is noted for her work with Ingmar Bergman & with UNICEF'

Liv Ullmann

1000

'Under 5 feet tall & all of about 90 pounds, this frail French chanteuse was nicknamed the "Little Sparrow"'

(Edith) Piaf

SWEET!

200

'This slang term for coffee precedes "chip" in a Starbucks ice cream flavor'

java

400

'Butter is an ingredient of this hard candy that has "butter" in its name; the rest of its name doesn't refer to whisky'

butterscotch

600

'A confection called a kiss is baked this: sugar & stiffly beaten egg whites'

meringue

800

'A red cake named for this smooth fabric is really a chocolate cake--food coloring gives it the distinctive color'

velvet

1000

'Some pies have a top named for this garden structure'

a lattice